28 November 2006
jlesage's reviews
my tagcloud from stumbleupon; just discovered I could import my delicious tags and comments there. Stumbleupon is my newest obsessively visited site.
27 November 2006
Lists of Bests
by 5 othersagain, I am fascinated by lists of bests, especially as related to literature; they comprise both an ideology of the canon and a sociology of popular tastes, a la Bourdieu; in an extended form, they comprise much of amazon.com
essay on academic blogging in Reconstruction
06, overview, rationale, and links to academic blogs
26 November 2006
Cyberstudies webring
collection of sites with interest in cyberculture, many from the social sciences
21 November 2006
Adding meaning and value to information
what we do with information that might make it useful and desirable to others
20 November 2006
Storytelling in Flickr on Flickr
various modes of flickr storytelling are described, and the keywords needed to get to them
18 November 2006
The Digital Journalist November 2006 Issue Contents
monthly online magazine; wonderful examples of documentary photography
THE PECULIARITIES OF CYBERSPACE by Albert Benschop
complete book online, covers many areas often not dealt with, such as porn sites and dating sites; one insight that may draw you to read more: "the times that count in cyberspace are highly accelerated and strongly individualized."
16 November 2006
Revealing Pictures & Reflexive Frames 2004
visual anthropology open archive, photos with comments: "opportunity to examine photographic modes of communication across societies, cultures, and academic worlds"
13 November 2006
11 November 2006
Knowing Knowledge
useful summary by George Siemens of his ideas from new book; educators need to rethink all ideas about knowledge, education, and learning for young people growing up in the Internet era
06 November 2006
Henry Jenkins: Taking the You Out of YouTube?
what kinds of censorship face You Tube and My Space, in addition to the site's ownership of content?
BookMooch: a community for exchanging used books (book swap and book exchange and book trade)
by 4 otherssend in your books and request and get others' used books
02 November 2006
"Cyberfeminism with a difference" by Rosi Braidotti
an important essay building on the work of Donna Haraway, emphasizing the kinds of empoverishment that come with globalization, and the possibilities for new forms of collective identity in cyberspace, while eschewing utopianism.
17 October 2006
PhD Project: Vernacular Creativity and New Media at creativity/machine
abstract for thesis that sparks some interesting trains of thought
TRANSFORMATIONS
"different modes of life embodied within local domains, yet globally interconnected at the same time"
05 October 2006
Networked Public Culture
theses for a proposed book on this topic, to which readers are invited to contribute, with comments included in "symposia" after each chapter, first announcement. Later entries include chapter contributors, topics, comments.
03 October 2006
Collectivate.net -- Distributed Aesthetics
expanded discussion of a workshop on this topic. See "theses" by Munster and Lovink
"Theses on Distributed Aesthetics" by Anna Munster & Geert Lovink
We live inside fragmented and spatially dispersed networks, and do not just use the computer as part of a network.
Overview of a Distributed Aesthetics workshop
considering a new kind of network or network-assisted art, such as Internet or cell phone facilitated performances, on or offline; using locative media; Creative Commons, etc. An older idea was Internet Art.
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